Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Artigo Acesso aberto Produção Nacional

BIBTEX RIS

Ação policial, política, luta camponesa e violência na região contestada entre o Espírito Santo e Minas Gerais

2020; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5212/rev.hist.reg.v.25i1.0006

1414-0055

Edmilton da Silva, Maria Cristina Dadalto,

Brazilian Legal Issues

conflagration.The Minas Gerais-Espírito Santo conflict was also marked by a situation of violence around land tenure, use and ownership.Thus, through oral history as a methodology, we seek to analyze the tensions of the territorial border in the disputed region between the states and the conflicts over land and power in the period from 1940 to 1962, mainly in the municipality of Ecoporanga, ES, where the situation had more brutal aspects.In the contested region, there was also an intimate relationship between the State Military Police and local politicians and also with large landowners.This relationship, in addition to the border dispute itself, led to the committing of numerous crimes against the person, practised mainly by the Military Police of Espírito Santo and by gunmen and "jagunços".There are reports of several murders committed against invaders.After some of the main police actions, the Public Power, through the media, sought to qualify the peasant struggle as an activity of bandits, criminals and fanatics.However, we found that the Minas Gerais-Espírito Santo Contest suffered, in fact, violence that exceeded the limits of the human condition itself and of life in the society in which the main victims were people looking for land to work.